Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,894,312 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,039,246). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $11M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $8.9M
- Net assets
- $23M
What Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Inc does
Mission
Utah Open Lands' mission is to preserve and protect open space, in perpetuity, in order to maintain Utah's natural heritage and quality of life for present and future generations. The purpose of Utah Open Lands is to permanently protect land in Utah by acquiring title or a conservation easement; including the stewardship of these properties in order to protect the conservation values, inspire and educate landowners, local & statewide leaders, professional advisers and the public about the importance of land conservation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
LAND CONSERVATION: From community backed protection campaigns to critical habitat for species of greatest concern, Utah Open Lands crafted conservation easements to ensure land protection on incredible resource lands, community open spaces and lands of ecological significance. Ongoing negotiations include land that surrounds the Great Salt Lake and the wetlands that sustain the Lake, landscapes that buffer our national defense at Camp Williams as well as provide community trails, open space and agricultural lands and lands adjacent to stunning landscapes that capture state, international and national visitors. Four projects were finalized this reporting period and the organizations is continuing the consideration, investigation, discussion and negotiation on more than 20 projects. The Beard Family conservation easement include a rare and valuable ecosystem value called a fen. This nutrient rich, peat like wetland provides multiple ecosystem services and on the Beard Family conservation easement the fens are protected along with multiple natural springs that flow directly to Willard Bay. Close to Utah Lake, lands surrounding Camp Williams are considered part of the West Traverse…
$429,786 spent56% of program spendingSTEWARDSHIP: Utah Open Lands has continued to expand its stewardship responsibilities by monitoring every property it has protected. As new lands are acquired and permanently conserved, they are incorporated into the organization's perpetual stewardship and monitoring program. Through regular site visits and documentation, stewardship staff verify compliance with conservation easements and track the condition and direction of each property's conservation values over time, ensuring that the purposes of protection are upheld year after year. Utah Open Lands has also continued collaborative work with state and local agencies, as well as private landowners, to enhance public access, ecological integrity, wildlife habitat, scenic resources, and trail systems at Bonanza Flat Conservation Area (1,500 acres) and the adjacent 45-Star Preserve (3,120 acres) - both highly valued landscapes that support passive recreation and conservation. Building on the success of a free transit pilot program developed in partnership with Park City Municipal Corporation, the city has formally incorporated the program into its transportation system. Since then, Utah Open Lands has continued working to expand…
$281,615 spent37% of program spendingEDUCATION and OUTREACH: Conservation education at Utah Open Lands ranges from seminars we host for those professionals who deal with conservation easements to restoration and management plan lessons we have learned from monitoring and enforcing our conservation easements. The organization routinely presented at Rotary clubs, league of Women Voter Forums, practitioner seminars, city councils and University Classes. In particular, Utah Open Lands presented at three University of Utah Law classes as well as providing lectures the League of Women Voters and several town halls. Utah Open Lands was also asked to present at two Utah Lake Authority community visioning events. The organization in partnership with the Park City Museum held its annual hike which explores protected landscapes and the ecological and historical context of the land. The organization engaged at tabling events at the Front Climbing gym, and for a regional trail mixer. Utah Open Lands continued with our annual Gaining Ground | Trying Times Symposium hosted by the University of Utah's SJ Quinney School of Law and Wallace Stegner Center in an effort to educate elected officials, state and local agencies, students,…
$55,476 spent7% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $766,877.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $12M to $23M (+85%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 1% · 2022 65% · 2023 17% · 2024 4% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Wendy Fisher
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $393k.
16 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 49% · 2019 45% · 2020 52% · 2021 31% · 2022 23% · 2023 28% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $4.2M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 210 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 210 environment nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC
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In Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC (Utah) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,894,312 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($3,039,246). 43 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $8,894,312 in grants to UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC, 43 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $3,039,246 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH OPEN LANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 65 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing